{"id":39256,"date":"2024-07-17T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=39256"},"modified":"2024-07-17T14:51:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:51:51","slug":"reps-gift-n100-million-to-nigerian-olympic-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/17\/reps-gift-n100-million-to-nigerian-olympic-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Reps Gift N100 Million to Nigerian Olympic Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has donated N100 million to support the Nigerian Olympic team for the upcoming Paris Olympics. The announcement was made by Deputy Speaker Ben Kalu during a plenary session on Wednesday, where the House hosted the Minister of Sport, John Enoh, and the Olympic team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Speaker Kalu revealed that the funds would be sourced from the salaries of the members of the House. &#8220;The money is coming from our salaries,&#8221; Kalu stated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the collective donation, Aminu Balele, Chairman of the House Committee on Army, personally donated N3 million to the team during the plenary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has donated N100 million to support the Nigerian Olympic team for the upcoming Paris Olympics. The announcement was made by Deputy Speaker Ben Kalu during a plenary session on Wednesday, where the House hosted the Minister of Sport, John Enoh, and the Olympic team. &nbsp; Deputy Speaker Kalu revealed that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39330,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39256\/revisions\/39330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}